{"id":26063,"date":"2010-08-27T17:24:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=26063"},"modified":"2010-08-28T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T07:55:13","slug":"august-%e2%80%93-september-2010-french-scientific-review-%e2%80%9cscience-vie%e2%80%9d-issues-on-%c2%ab-the-origins-of-languages-%c2%bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2010\/08\/august-%e2%80%93-september-2010-french-scientific-review-%e2%80%9cscience-vie%e2%80%9d-issues-on-%c2%ab-the-origins-of-languages-%c2%bb\/","title":{"rendered":"August \u2013 September 2010: French scientific review \u201cScience &#038; Vie\u201d issues on \u00ab the origins of languages \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those of you who read French could be well interested in the latest issue of <strong><em>Science &amp; Vie<\/em><\/strong>. After recently addressing the question of writing and script, the review now turns exclusively to languages. In total, near a hundred pages through the history of <strong>languages<\/strong>, their geography and sociology\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Among the guest stars featured in this special issue, two eminent linguists we\u2019re familiar with here at <em>Sorosoro<\/em>: <strong>Colette Grinevald<\/strong>, specialist of Latin American languages and member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-sorosoro-programme\/scientific-committee\"><em>Sorosoro<\/em> scientific board<\/a>, and <strong>Jean-Marie Hombert<\/strong>, who works on African languages and skillfully lead last year\u2019s filming expedition in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is Jean-Marie who introduces the discussion on the <strong>origins of languages<\/strong>, while Colette concludes on the <strong>revitalization<\/strong> of endangered languages\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In between, you\u2019ll face the <strong>controversy<\/strong> coined by Merritt Ruhlen on the existence of a <strong>language mother to all languages<\/strong> of the world; you\u2019ll approach ancient languages such as Latin and Greek, of course, but also Sumerian, Egyptian, as well as an outstanding article on the origins of Austronesian languages, retraced thanks to the genome of a bacteria going by the cute name of <em>Helicobacter pylori<\/em>\u2026; and you\u2019ll end up on a trip around the world through various maps and family trees, keys to a better understanding of linguistic diversity in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science-et-vie.com\/Sommaire.asp?Type=CSV\">this page<\/a> for more information (French).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who read French could be well interested in the latest issue of Science &amp; Vie. 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